Users are increasingly dependent on decision tools to facilitate their transactions on the internet. Reputation models offer a solution to the users in supporting their purchase decisions. The reputation model takes product ratings as input and produces product quality as score. Most existing reputation models use naïve average method or weighted average method to aggregate ratings. Naïve avera...

This paper is a preliminary report on the results of an investigation into the diffusion of Euclidean shape, using computer algebra to reduce complicated intermediate calculations to an informative final form. The computer algebra takes the form of an extension to the symbolic Itô calculus described in W.S. Kendall (1988). A substantially more detailed treatment (including details of how to obt...

Background: Teaching professional ethics in the ceramics branch requires using a standard system of integrating professional ethics components in the ceramics curriculum elements to determine the relationship between professional ethics and the curriculum components. The aim of the present study is a conceptual framework for integrating the elements of professional ethics in the ceramic’s curri...

The rapid growth of staphylococci in the usual laboratory media consisting of meat infusion or meat extract, peptone, buffer, and metabolizable carbohydrate is accompanied by the consumption of sugar and the production of much acid; only relatively slight changes are noted in the nitrogenous constituents (Kendall, Farmer, Bagg, and Day (1)). Kendall, Friedemann, and Ishikawa (2) obtained a yiel...

An unusual osteochondrodysplasia presenting with lethal neonatal short limbed dwarfism, defective ossification, and punctate calcification within cartilage is presented. The features resemble four cases previously described with Astley-Kendall dysplasia.

This paper proposes a novel method for the analysis of anatomical shapes present in biomedical image data. Motivated by the natural organization of population data into multiple groups, this paper presents a novel hierarchical generative statistical model on shapes. The proposed method represents shapes using pointsets and defines a joint distribution on the population's (i) shape variables and...